About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Purpose Statement:

The Global Process Manager is responsible to drive global standards, process transformation and continuous improvement for respective process areas within Record to Report (RTR), in support of SSO Hubs, CFS and other key stakeholders. This role directly supports the Global Process Owner Record to Report for related process leadership and program deliverables.  You will be responsible for driving process governance, leading and delivering global process initiatives within a matrixed organization across multiple geographies, organizations, and divisions.  This includes identifying key metrics, trends, benchmarking, and improvement opportunities.  This role will also drive process automation including robotics and other intelligent solutions for the supported process area. 

This role will support process and systems initiatives across key RTR Financial Systems including various enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems,  Cadency Financial Close Management system, CORA Intercompany workflow, and other enabling technologies.  

Key Responsibilities:

Within the Global Process Organization (GPO), act as the global point of contact for respective sub-process areas and provide leadership and process expertise for relevant initiatives. 

Drive end to end process governance, working towards global processes and global standards 

Drive process adoption and related sustainability for implemented global processes    

Lead and monitor process transformation and continuous improvement initiatives related to respective sub-process areas including process standardization, simplification, and technology innovation 

Work collectively and collaboratively with global and regional teams within and across their functional area as part of a matrixed organization; partner and maintain strong working relationships across CFS, divisional and corporate business partners, BTS, and other organizations and customers 

Collaborate with ERP program team as needed, align on global standards and support technology deployments.  

Ensure IT solutions and designs meet the needs of the business and that all aspects have been thoroughly tested, documented and trained   

Drive the development and maintenance of documentation for harmonized global processes 

Drive recommendations to advance the CFS Target Operating Model  

Ensure adequate and timely root cause analysis to understand problem drivers and implementation of necessary corrections and/or changes 

Establish key global metrics and monitor to measure effectiveness of continuous improvement and identification of additional improvement opportunities 

Drive process automation and intelligent solutions including robotics for the supported process area. 

Support development and preparation of solid business cases for identified continuous improvement initiatives 

Be a trusted advisor to CFS leadership on respective sub-process areas  

Education and Experience:

7+ years Finance and Accounting experience,  

Experience executing process transformation initiatives or delivering enterprise systems 

In-depth understanding of SAP or other major ERP systems capabilities  

Experience or exposure to Abbott Global Finance Systems such as Cadency and Cora desirable 

Direct experience or exposure to finance & accounting processes, with strong accounting acumen; FP&A experience desirable 

High degree of attention to detail and ability to understand complex processes, combined with ability to summarize and convey big picture.   

Strong quantitative and analytical reasoning skills 

Program and project management experience 

Ability to collaborate in a cross functional global team across multiple levels  

High degree of organizational and time management skills, with attention to detail 

Team oriented, strong collaborator 

Strong written, verbal and presentation skills 

Travel required 10% - 15%